Arrow Pointing Downwards Then Curving Leftwards HTML entity ⤶

⤶: HTML entity for Arrow Pointing Downwards Then Curving Leftwards ⤶ (U+2936), with decimal, hex, CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes to copy.

Entity
⤶
Code point
U+2936
Unicode name
ARROW POINTING DOWNWARDS THEN CURVING LEFTWARDS
Block
Supplemental Arrows-B
Category
Math symbol (Sm)
Since
Unicode 3.2
Defined in
HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named⤶Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal⤶Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex⤶Works in HTML and XML.
CSScontent: "\2936";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript"\u2936"Also valid in JSON.
Python"\u2936"Python 3 string literal.
Python by name"\N{ARROW POINTING DOWNWARDS THEN CURVING LEFTWARDS}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL%E2%A4%B6Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytesE2 A4 B63 bytes.
UTF-1629361 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

⤶ writes U+2936 (Arrow Pointing Downwards Then Curving Leftwards), a maths symbol from the Unicode Supplemental Arrows-B block, encoded since Unicode 3.2. Specialist notation like this usually belongs in MathML, which positions it correctly; the entity is for occasional use in running text.

The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.

More advanced maths and arrows

All advanced maths and arrows · Every HTML entity · Encode or decode text

Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).